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Jim Hoagland

Jimmie Lee Hoagland (born January 22, 1940) is a Pulitzer prize-winning American journalist.[1] He is a contributing editor to The Washington Post, since 2010, previously serving as an associate editor, senior foreign correspondent, and columnist.[2]

Jim Hoagland

(1940-01-22) January 22, 1940

Rock Hill, South Carolina, U.S.

University of South Carolina
Columbia University

Journalist

The Washington Post

Contributing editor

Jane Stanton Hitchcock

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Two-time winner of the Pulitzer prize

Hoagland is a graduate of the University of South Carolina and attended graduate school at Aix-Marseille University and Columbia University.[3]


He has worked in journalism for over six-decades, beginning as a part-time reporter while a student. Hoagland has served as a foreign correspondent from Africa, France and Lebanon with the Post, and has been awarded two Pulitzer prizes, in 1971 and 1991. He authored one book, based on his coverage in South Africa.[4]


Hoagland is married to novelist, Jane Stanton Hitchcock, and has two children.[1][3]

Background and education[edit]

Jimmie Lee Hoagland, was born in Rock Hill, South Carolina, to parents Lee Roy Hoagland Jr., and Edith Irene Sullivan.[1]


He graduated from the University of South Carolina, in 1961, with his bachelor's in journalism. He attended post graduate programs at both the University of Aix-en-Provence (1961–62) in France and as a Ford Foundation fellow (1968–69) at Columbia University in New York.[1][3]


He was an Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, (2010–13).[3]


Hoagland served in the U.S. Air Force, stationed in Germany, from 1962 to 1964.[1]

Gorbachev Feels The Heat, January 16, 1990

[8]

Iraq: Outlaw State, March 29, 1990

[9]

Soft on Saddam, April 10, 1990

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Gorbachev's Choices...And a Soviet Food Crisis, April 23, 1990

[11]

Turning a Blind Eye to Baghdad, July 5, 1990

[12]

A Real Arab Awakening, August 16, 1990

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...And the Tale of a Transcript, September 17, 1990

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A Quick Rewrite of History, October 7, 1990

[8]

Gorbachev's Nobel Lifeline, October 16, 1990

[15]

As Good a Snake-Oil Merchant as There Is, November 13, 1990

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1971 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, "for his coverage of the struggle against apartheid in the Republic of South Africa."

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1977 Overseas Press Club Award for Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs, Daily Newspaper or Wire Service

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1991 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, "for searching and prescient columns on events leading up to the Gulf War and on the political problems of Mikhail Gorbachev."

[8]

1994 Eugene Meyer Career Achievement Award

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2002 Cernobbio-Europa Prize by the editors of seven European newspapers for his international reporting

[3]

2017 South Carolina Hall of Fame, in recognition as a distinguished writer, by the University of South Carolina

[4]

"The United States is engaged in a shadow war that must now be the central priority for this president and his administration for every day of his term." -- The Washington Post, 2001

Regarding the War on Terror:

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